Families in a new parenting program for inmates and families read a new book "Hungry Robot" (written by the author) about personal reformation

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'!)... FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Attn: Editor Topic/ Title: "Children's Book Helps Imprisoned Parents" By: Anthony Tinsman (First published by prisoneducation.com) Being a parent is a tough job. Prison doesn't make that job any easier . Between 1991 and mid-year 2007 parents held in state and federal prisons increased by 79%, to 357,300 parents (Bureau Of Justice Statistics) . This makes being an imprisoned parents a bigger challenge than the general public is aware of. R...

Him By Tracy Meadows My celly has a subscription to Harper's Magazine and recently I read an essay concerning the definition and joys of "frottage" - which, the author instructed, is pronounced like "cottage". My memory is usually a stew of subtle reflections rather than clear recollections, but as I read, the stew was stirred and suddenly there rose a steaming memory of him. I remember him standing on the top floor staircase landing in the music building. We were col...

Roc Magnific Holiday Blues ‘n Blahs There’s nothing more effacing for one to lose control of hiser positive thinking when being confined during holidays. Melancholy, despair, depression (especially that dog, depression)… tag-team to assault one’s mental bulwarks. As humans, male and female, young and old, we create realities… based [upon?] faiths and beliefs. Thus it is [gey?] [eutse?] why so many people experience mental issues during the holidays, being far… from those they love. Our lives ...

Description of program "Take a Load Off" developedand taught by author, program plan and charts on recidivism rates by crime, etc.

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NON-FICTION STORY ( 700 + words ) Anthony Tinsman Title: I, Intellectual Firing Squad I wanted my prisoner rehabilitation program "Take a Load Off" to provide a body of positive work and hope for prisoners who were getting ready to leave for the World. There are some glimpses of hope, but progress routinely feels like a muddy canard rather than the champion I designed and put into practice . In a word People are the problem. We think we're the stars of everything, everything ex...

I have a unique job. As the program designer of Take a Load Off (TLO) it’s my job to teach it, train others to teach it, and evaluate the progr effectiveness. Since July 2014, with support from our proactive Reentry Affairs Coordinator Mrs. Guthrie, TLO has provi , standardized curriculum and one-on—one guidance to prisoners for their reentry needs. This required a new work deta "6 24 inmates, called Reentry Technicians, who provide the services: such as applications for vital documents ...

"On Prison Health Care" When it comes to prison health care, the best way to describe it is by an old axiom true: "Galen says "yea," Hippocrates says "nay" (e.g. doctors and nurses disagree over what... types of aid to render [ineligible] forlorn hopes; and will not follow the orders of free-world physicians; and instead follow their own initiatives). Basically here's the [dillie?]: the only good inmate is a dead... inmate. Financially speaking the cost...

Re: Writing Contest (Pen Pals) By: Antony Tinsman, POB 3000,Forrest City,AR.,72336 Topic: Pen Pals who are News Services, Collaborators and Fans My first passion was words. I didn't even know what I was looking at as a toddler, but there was some kind of magic in the structure of writing and power in what people could share by reading it aloud. Since I have some time to work on this passion a little more, I have come a long way. It started with writing fiction and poetry, to master the c...

Reynoso By Tracy Meadows I never knew what disease stiffened and wasted Reynoso's body. It wasn't any of my business. My job as his irunate companion was to get him outside. Reynoso's head was shaved and covered with tattoos. His inked body was a record of his life, his associations, his beliefs about the world and his place in it. His face, bisected by the oxygen tube pushed into his nostrils and wrapped around his ears, was a frozen mask dominated by his black eyes. His turtl...

“Southern Discomfort” Then there’s the joke inmates in Arkansas prisons that goes something like this: what’s the difference between a near-sighted armadillo and an Arkansas inmate? Eventually the former sees well enough to sojourn safely across a car-filled highway while the latter, even if heshe possessed the eyes of Argus, will not unite as a whole to rid themselves of the satori that afflicts them. When it comes to a state controlling its pained forlorn hope population via all kinds of ch...

The Inmate Reentry Support Team Inmates helping inmates become Returning Citizens By Tracy Meadows In my federal prison housing unit, I am a member of a unique program. The Inmate Reentry Support Team was conceived by inmate Victor Jackson. Vic has spent most of his fifteen year prison sentence at five different facilities teaching job skills and business classes to help men prepare for reentry. I have taught classes at two prisons during the first seven years of my seventeen and a half year ...

Non fiction Article (950 words) Anthony Tinsman Title: The Power of Group When I ask prisoners in my classes about their views they are uncomfortable sharing them. Views are easy to make up, you can just mimic someone if you want. But in a group your views have to be explained in ways that ultimately reveal who you are. An example is publicly answering, "Why did you do your crime?" You can think whatever you want about your motivations, and you can fool yourself. But in a group ( th...

"The Straight Fire" Pop quiz, mental midgets: which country locks up more people than any other country in the world? If you guessed Communist China: ay, caramba! Wrong! Its the good oll U.S.A. Shocked? Don't be. Here's the dillie, eudemans: America makes up 5% of the world's population, but more than 25% are in human warehouses (e.g. prisons) and jails. If one were to go by the numbers along with per capita, America's the world's largest jailer. Here are so...